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wraggster
August 28th, 2014, 16:06
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Virtual reality has made huge strides (http://www.engadget.com/tag/OculusRift/) in headgear recently, but developers are still grappling with control. How do we interact with an artificial world in a natural way? There are plenty of devices to answer this: gamepads, the Sixense Stem system (http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/29/makevr-sixense-stem/) and even purpose-built (http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/21/trinity-vr/)game controllers -- but the folks at Leap Motion think they have a better solution: just use your hands (http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/05/control-vr-motion-tracking-gloves/). Independent developers have been strapping Leap's motion controller onto the Oculus Rift since almost day one, but application isn't consistent. Leap Motion wants to fix that, and has announced that its both creating a VR mount for its existing hardware andbuilding a new sensor specifically for virtual reality.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/28/leap-motion-s-next-sensor-is-designed-specifically-for-virtual-r/